Hard-liners ahead in Assembly vote
Hard-liners were ahead in an election for control of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The Protestants of the Democratic Unionists and the Catholics of Sinn Fein appeared on course to strengthen their hold over each side of the Assembly. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley and his deputy, Peter Robinson, were among the first to win easy reelection.
At stake is achieving the central aim of the Good Friday peace accord of 1998: an administration drawn equally from the British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority that can govern Northern Ireland.
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